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IMPRESSIONS OF HOME RY A FORMER HONGKONG RESIDENT.

COL JOHN WARD, M.P. WITH THE 25TH MIDDLESEX IN SIBERIA

light on the revolution which has taken | Cannda at 1008, a hundredweight. · The place in recent years in the habits of Treasury refused to find the money. The Greater London. Apart from the tnet that ] cheese at once went up the 1474. and is the population of Greater London increas- now, between 1884, and 170k.? - It is not Lospoy, June 25th". ed from 6,777,645 in 1804 to 7,483,278 in

a question of production at all; it is Interviewed by a representative of the ** GERMAN, YONOra.” “

1914, the statistics given in evidence show preying on the necessities of people who Straits Times, Colonel Ward, M.P., gavo June, 1919, will ever be niemorable ined an enormous increase in local travel want it." According to the Consumers' souls Account of the doings of his, batte- the history of the world for at least three ling. For example, the general manager Council, the American Trusts have laid lion and expressed hopeful views regard- events, if I may now write of the signing of the County Council tramways stated their hands largely on the world's suping the future evolution of order out of of the Treaty of Peace with Germany that in 11004 the number of journeys perplies of iggs, cheese, fish, vegetable oil Russia's present troubles. The battalion (announced to take place to-morrow) as head of the population was 130.5, and products-in fact on nearly every kind of landed at Vladivostock on July 9th Fast one of the outstanding events of the in 1914, 270.3, an increase in ten years of essential foodstuf“

year. Two days, after arriving at Vladi- month. The others I have in mind are 128 and, as to these latter figures, the

Mr. Roberts' view is that for vertain vostock the Twenty-fifth were in action. the dramatic scuttling of the German witness added that it might safely be crticles the price for next winter, for The Red forces had attacked, and rem Flest, interned under the care of German I assumed that the number of journeys per obvious seasonal reasons," would bined force of Japanese, British and skeleton crews, at Scapa Flow, and the head of the population has at least higher than now, but he considers they French was hurried forward to the Ussurig first lights noross the Atlantic.

doubled during the last fifteen years. The are not likely to be higher than last to join with the Czechs in rupelling them.. The destruction of the German Fleet at cause of this development are obvious winter. If there is scarcity, He said, there This was successfully done, and the Mid- Scapa Flow on the eve of the signature The reduction in the hours of labour must be control to prevent profiteering; dlesex men bore themselves credibly in of Peace can only serve to emphasise the which has taken place in recent years is and he announced that he had come to the fighting. fact that the Germans are a race whose one important factor; the large increase the conclusion that in the interest of the It then became a question," said promises cannot be trusted; yet in the in the number of people employed is consuming public it is desirable to retain. Colonel Ward, of organising a per- communication in which they announce another. Tans of thousands of girls, who, enatral. at least through the coming manent scheme of resistance to the enemy, It was no use destroying them haphazard themselves ready to sign the conditions of in other times, Would rarely have fisited winter.

--some constructional work was necessary peace they prate amazingly about the the City or the West End,

-and it was therefore decided by the Several things have happened upsetting the calculations an which the Ministry is that a su fould be unablished at government representing the "honour" of the German people. Three backwards and forwards daily, and, com times in a brief letter the German Governbined with this, there is the increasing has been proceeding. We have had seven Ousk. We were sent Eve thousand miles ment insists on something which called tendency of large numbers of people to or eight weeks of uninterrupted sunshine, into the country to represent the British

Mission,

arrived ณะ Omsk in the early the honour of the German people." The do their shopping at large central

and the protracted. drenght" has days or October after a highly interest- emporiums instead of at small local shops,

adversely affected home food suppliesing journey. Since then the Omsk Gov- Pency, conditions are alleged to pursue the regards pleasure the sure tending Then the shipping situation has not eased erament hus accomplished wonders in re- object of taking away the honour of the exists. The introduction of German people, and the Government saving

to the extent expected; the Minister ducing the country to order and establish- has led to

travelling inore

ing after observed that the output of new ships has takes comfort in the declaration that the the day's work s done.

ang something like human society." honour of the German people will

unly about half the estimate Fur of the increased

ILTE The Twenty-firth untouched by any art of violence, greatly

of people thermore, the export trade is not reviving The suburbs, there is largel

so rapidly-as-

we have people accept the Treaty, the who will be content with

because, after the frightful of the best, and the transp thing

German Note says, sufferings of the last few years, they lack

now come

nun "ypite the ben

P

i

1 short not the goodse for food, we!

means of defending their honour bytuele business. The popularity ut

external action.'

giers, both by day and by night, is a very ces, which are nearly as palaces, to a good dent of local travelling, and plentiful now n public houses, also leads

tha present difficulty of obtaining

of

اليه والحالة

as present at

Vlachy stock Kuarding supplies and traus

port.

the violation of Belgium, by the massacres | houses was another cause suggested to that in the reconstruction of the State Coloner ward paid a tribute to the

16.

on this. The German honour, it says, is The 'st Jurnal has the best comment of the stuff which has not been stained by the torpedoing of the by the assassination of Captain and Miss Cavell, and so many other victims, or by the blood of 10,000,000 soldiers, without counting women and children. But what really damages this honour, made in Germany, is the ad mission of the fault committed in plan

the war and the

the Committer by the general manager of the tramways.

The traffic congestion is certainly very great, fer the war not only put a stop to the construction of new cubes to krep pace with the growing traffic require

ind to Revere curtailment of the onibus services, and the tram at the very time, too, when war work was

ents, but

Kaiser and his accomplishment of the services also in many places

The world during the past five years, I it has not learnt to understand German psychology, has learnt at least to recognise it and the new Germany will have to show a very different wense of “honour than she has up to the present before the Powers of the world will agree to admit her again to the comity of nations... A DEMOCRATIC CITIZENS ARMY.

vast increase in the number of lers. The Chairman of the CC, High- ways Committee admitted that, in the year ended March last, though the LC.C. Tramways, owing to war conditions, covered conser curriell 114,000,000 mor

Jess milenge than in 1913-1014, they passengers.

Colonel Ward has been ordered

world is no; so favourably situated, so have to furnish credit, and the financial for consultation with the Govern- ment, but cannot say whether his work in Siberia is finished. Für all he knows In this far as our country is concerned."

and he may be returning there.

He hopes.

that is being squandered on things which des let his stud that bit Auckland

however, to nave some opportunity at home told his audiener that the money

of resuming his lung interrupted Pariza are of no value is colossal, and the work

nary duties. is supplying these things is of no He said. for instance, it was a fact that more beer was being brewed now before the war. Yet, the alleged scarcity of beer is a

joke. Sir Auckland feddes explained this by saying that is being swilled at twice the rate, because there was more time to drink it in, and more money to pay for it." He is alied- ing, I take it, to the shorter hours of

value!

than

of Lieneral Knox, Chief of the Rei msk.think, he said, that a great tish Military Mission, who is how t

deal of the success accomplished by the British intervention in Siberia is due entirely to the personality of General knox, and i was extremely pleased to neur of the honour he has secured."

THE PRESENT POSITIONS. Colonel ward's opicion of the future of Russia is interesting,

He said Since Admiral Koltchak accepted the houses are open fewer hours than the

As a result of this increased tinued stance of the British Govern-

hnd

labour and increased wages, for Predictatorship and has received the con-

war.

thing with half a hundred

Recently, military lorries die for stockings und feathers for gathered. General Denikin has made

be

consumption of beer, he said, brewers to send oversens for more hops and barlement in orgaming and slipping his add he went on to explain that the same

army the situation bus steadily proted, and a centre has been formed Arbond thing was

which the elements of Russian society can By sending overseas for have been employed on the streets to re lieve the traffic congestion in certain parts.

ta, we are inercasing our debt overseas of London. This vehicle is christened the for things that do not matter, What we Our military leaders do not seem have any sublime faith in the abolition orribas. Gradually, too, the

omnibus

get is food, raw material, cotton, of war by the League of Nations. When companies are putting on more "busses. rubber, iron and steel, zine, copper, oil, Field-Marshal Sir Duuglas Haig "and | but it will be some time yet. I imagine, wool, said, was more important thin up to bow has been the big supply, of

Bread next winter, Sir

to

1589" | have

Admiral Siz David Beatty were presented before we hear of any further devalon. the other day, at the Guildhall, with civic ment of the tube system Present-as awords of honour, Sir Douglas Haig gave costs of construction are prohibitive, utterance to views on the subject which

MHIER | THE COST OF LIVING. have not

been well received 18, certain political circles. My

The cost of living in a subject, of very 8s a man general interest to English people abroad und through you to the Empire to you, who'

seun chough of was to make me as well as at home Prices of food determined to spend my utmost efforts to and clothes still rising." is a headline! prevent its recurrence," he said, is to saw in a Londen paper a day or two ago, urge you, now that the war has given and some examples were given of

the you "once the reason and the Dar alleged results of decontrol. Thus, mar

opper- Lunity to do so, to wet up forthwith the garing, when decontrolled, sank to 8d. organisation of strong citizen army on pound. To-day it is 1s. 2d, and should, territorial linen organisation that on the cutlook, be 13, 4d de 18. 6d, with. shall ensure that every abu-podied citizen the next fortnight. Eggs will be 6d. each stau me forward

next crisis

by October, and the 9d. TRK will be a but feature of Christmas-tide. mes, wot us a willen the

patr.olic, but

Veil today vil.tarily

is ranging from 35. 4d. to 58. Gd. a The Real. Burley Cigarette trained rant, volunteer, "but as a

In addition, he said there As to

to tra, the market, yet

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the

of

Auckland feathers

The average person sums up the ex planation of high prices in the one word

Profiter ring.

But the Food Controller says it is not only scarcity not only pro- fiteering, bat depreciated currency. La deed, he spoke of this as

This is

great, if the greatest, factor."

omething turint does not quite Sir

not

known to the world that he accepts Ad- miral Koltchak's leadership, and to ta they are well on the way forces are working in harmony..

think to dealing with the Bolshevik menace, great dificulty

arms and anmagition in Bolaterik hand When the late Russian army broke up a good many of the officers were patristic cough to remove stored from the front to prevent them falling into fieringe

were taken to magazines in

hands. Russin which the Bul

Ahovi

iks afterwards held, with the result that supplies for an

an army of 16,000,000 men were in their possession.

Thus the Soveit government bad that the price of food reamed of a mem- umple supplica, while the forms to rely climb to a level none

is

Auckland Geddes pri

J

cclu-

her of the nudience shouted Mare them north, south and east had to rely

kland Gudian

as if that, were the remety. Sir almcat central on outside.help.

addition,

European Russia to explain that there would be no money for wages if it prises all the manufacturing districts,

wils for food.

and until the capture of Perm Overseas to

country north of the Urals there were no means by which the armies of Russia could

KO

had

A fenture which both speeches ander

Fred Lotice had

"dust―se our" highly-trained professional the method antities on in common was the emphasis:

kipt

and mani

the outlook is no better.

TL The

Struw hut, hold at es. Bd, before

ba

and

If the Bolshevil proximate self-support-

they laid on "the arcessity for increased made even production to

to effect exchanges.

was destroyed by the ing. antion consumes at a greater rate than

Factories were wantonly burnt. it produces, said the Food Controller perf workmen were forcibly taken away duwa, in addition most of the ex- we shall speedily he doomed in disaster.

ro

An entirely New principle 10 day when distributing prizes at the first i valus at is. 11d, are priced it be. Bd.:] his of mill-owners who limited their sary to tackle the task in the way which

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JAPANESE COMPETITION. A MISUSED OPPORTUNITY.

aring to mainida, the to meet the daily pulation is making it very untinliated

litary knowledge, and needs of a polier fores of our vast Lipigure. In the matter of clothing, it

the price down at its present and there must be also, proper and suth- cheat traging schools and Staff" colleges

Sir Auckland Geddes asserted that our and compelled to work for the Soviet gov- that the higher arts of war may be

instances are giva of pres manufacturers, were forced to charge roment or else murdered abreast of the times i notice that Major

twice as much as America, and that there nations friendly to order that it was pos

It was only by the help of European General Fielding, emanding the Lor the war, are selling at gls in the City few or markets in the world than ever sible for Admiral Kultchak to secure the don District, took up the retrain the other

to-day; stockings, considered moderate before.

point in his speech was

stark, staring organised resistance to Bolshevism necca- condemnation of the fi revaved London meeting of the Minature wartime boots, which were fair value at lunaey Rifle Clubs

He urged all Englishmen to 218. 9d. some months ago, are ticketed at outpust

has been done. The overwhelming pro- limited their output to get more Britain." country. This was not militariam, he is now the

wearable pries to work for more people.. said, but common-sense, as the best way. Sir Auck and Geddes has just been tell

Yet, as regards junior clerest

the general situation. Sir Auckland t stop war was to be prepared for it.

announced himself as But when two nations, or a dozen, pre-ing an audience in the north of England because he had the greatest trust in the

not pessimistic | pare for it, when then f

that the price of food next winter will intelligence and public spirit of the people climb to a level none dreamed of" I do THE ARMY KIUCATIONAL SCHEMES.

which is, perhaps, another way of saying not gather that Mr.

the Food Roberts,

we shall muddle through." It is not generally realised what great Controller, takes quite so serious a view

PROSPERITY OF THE PORT OF LONDON. educational experiments have been carried of the situation. While Sir Auckland

The demand for goods has been so great out in the British army during the time Ger

Geddes

Krave warning was uttering his of war. On the invitation of the Chief at Crewe, Mr. Roberts was trying to con

Whatever the future may have in store that shipments would be accepted (during for England in the way of commercial the war) though only a fraction of the of the Imperial Staff, representatives of vince a Labour Conference, at tias Universities and other higher educatry of Food, that prices have

the Minis- prosperity, the evidence at the London consignment was any use. But Japan,

Docks at the present time shows what is tion institutiona met representatives of

have steadily declined since the Armistice.

whose name was sufficiently bad already, Judging

described by an official of the Port of is now a by-word all over the world for the linminions in conference at Australia from the exclamations as the speech pro-

London authority us Honse the

revival in business. the other day, for the discussion ceded, it was a very sceptical company

tremendous dishonest work. Foreign buyers were in The ented themselv ar tiems when, bag, Prethat he went a caring, but the statistics present is for ships to arrive more quickly tray cans as diakonat as the manufac

to the Imperial Educa of the Ministry of Food, he said, showed

they can be with.

They bought any prier, paid tional Committee of the War Office as the that the of food had fallen 99 per ships are all bringing general cargoes to and shipped abroad the most disgraceful These bribes and black-mal to get freight space, result of experience gained in the work-rent, since the signing of the Armistice. London.

The docks are s Last November the cost of food was 183 have ever been in the history of the port, extension of the inspection scheme. in- full they rubbish which ever left a factory. The The object has tion into the life of the soldier to bring beginning of June it was 104 per cent. has not yet reached the level of the profession of arms close up to modern above the pre-war level. thought and modern science; and to hand back soldiers and sailors to civil life not

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turers.

of educational schemes in the on- HEE, cent, above the pre-war level; at the though the actual tonnage of ship stead of making things better, only made

been to try to weave

an

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And

more

The great new Dock, known for the pre sent as the Albert Dock extension, is near- ing completion. This new. Dock has a water area of sixty-five acres and over two miles of quays.

them a great deal worse,

The protest raised in these columns against the extension of the inspection system, was, of course, a voice crying in the wilderness. It is significant that there was no Japanese echo of There are Japanese manufacturers and exporters who are just as bonest and as careful as the best foreign exporters, but they are not in sufficiently strong force to make their voice heard in condemnation of a foolish and mischievous system, which, instead of preserving Japan's reputation, in a direct When it was food that no work way

The popular idea is that the concessions which have been made to the demand for caly

as good soldiers and sailors, but the re

removal of control-largely from good citizens, "At one time no fewer than interested quarters are having the inevit 3,000,000 were

educational

result of "sending able Never s

prices up by aid the

bounds." The

Consumers of Education,

Caps which

clairis to represent by n'ection. educational ment been conducted on so large a scale."

experi- | *****

nie than five million beads of families."

HOTEL CHARGES IN CHINA. has patively resisting the Mr. Fisher spoke of the movement as oncecun of incredible promise and fertility.

decontrol

until are manifestly auf Europe is not the only continent of this great Empire scheme, to which every cient supplies to keep, down prices. The famine prices at the present time

inde Food Controller admita the rise in the respondent of the Draper Organiser con price of lard, and he said, the germ of price

margerine, but Bays it Maya that the cost of living is very bigh educational organisation. was clear to the Ministry that the price in China. In the foreign quarters of the means of ruining it. mentioned that the schools must increase whether controlled or Treaty ports, the ordinary rate per day for officera and non-Commismoned

it America, the

part of

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had

they had

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at Oxford and Cambridge bad cer" if the Government had had to buy Iard for a single room. barely furnished. n. too bad to find a customar, and that hard. trated the truth of the proposition that must be paid dictated by Americ when they got a number of intelligent taken of the matter not the viewood is at least $7 to 80 per day,ly any was too bad to get past, a judicious-

That is

to 231 4 to 30s. Extras are exly manipulated inspector, there was the Consumers' Densive as well 48 necessary for water is deliberate attempt to boycott the conscien men together who wanted to learn

thing

Council, apparently. Mr.

3 dangerous to drink and consequently all tious foreign merchant. they could acquire the requisite knowledges the Press that the rise in the price minimum a traveller would have to allow doubt of that. With the capital in hand

Jember

drinks are extra. I should say that as a explain- in an infinitely short space of time.

of That Council. Ens Hyndman,

Japan has made money; there can be na There was a very interesting exchange of of margarine is largely due to profiteer anything from 30% to 40% per day as it is possible for her to set to work views at the Conference, and it is clearing in the vegetable oils. Palm kernels, expenses when riding in hotels on busi seriously and try to do good work, but, that the imperial education scheme will shipped, went up to nearly double this

which were £26

This estimate, of course, would vary judging from peat experience, the pros during the voyage. There was no according to exchange, which cannot be pects of her doing so are not bright. She azestion of labour there it was simply an overlooked in Chine, for one's expenses has had an opportunity unique in ipdu Evidence which Committee of London illustration of profiteering at the expense are mostly in dollars. A present £t only trial history of building up permanent MPs. has been taking on the subject of of the consumer." Mr. Hyndman quoted mual 83. Some years ago £1 was worth trade and a high reputation, and she bar the manifest inadequacy of London's cheese as another example. The Govern-10, but this is not likely to occur again deliberately flung it away for the anke traffic facilities throw at interesting ment were offered a large quantity in for some years.

of a dishonest proft-Japan Chronicle,

not expire with the war,

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